Top 69 Be Wise Enough Quotes
#2. We are surrounded by evil forces in our daily lives. We must be wise enough to recognize them. Strong enough to resist them and resolute enough to destroy them.
J.E. Holling
#3. A person should be wise enough to come up with their own quotes
John Maher
#4. Be strong enough to stand alone,
be yourself enough to stand apart,
but be wise enough to stand together,
when the time comes
Unknown
#5. If I ever acquire wisdom, I suppose I'll be wise enough to know what to do with it.
Lamar Trotti
#6. Since you have to do the things you have to do, be wise enough to do some of the things you want to do.
Malcolm Forbes
#7. Be wise enough to forgive but don't be foolish enough to trust again.
Ikechukwu Izuakor
#8. Be wise enough not to be reckless, but brave enough to take great risks.
Frank Warren
#9. The purpose of Holy Scripture is not ultimately to make you smart, or make you relevant, or make you rich, or get you a job, or get you married, or take all your problems away, or tell you where to live. The aim is that you might be wise enough to put your faith in Christ and be saved.
Kevin DeYoung
#10. There is beauty laced within this day ... be courageous enough to find it, be kind enough to share it, and at the end of the day, be wise enough to let it go.
Steve Maraboli
#11. A new day: Be open enough to see opportunities. Be wise enough to be grateful. Be courageous enough to be happy.
Steve Maraboli
#12. Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?
Eleanor Roosevelt
#13. A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#14. Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.
Richard Lamm
#15. To be bold is to be wise enough to realize that fear is the energy that fuels action.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#16. The legacy I leave will be unimaginably enhanced by the legacies I received. Therefore, I must be wise enough to embrace the history of those who have gone before me so that I can shape the future of those who will go ahead of me.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#17. Wisdom can be found anywhere.
Be wise enough and brave enough
to recognize it!
Russell Anthony Gibbs
#18. Forgiveness is NOT forgetness. If you forgive, remember to be wise enough NOT to forget.
Widad Akreyi
#19. We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.
Leon Kass
#20. The goal of a passionate artist is to try and make a masterpiece each and every time, yet be wise enough to know you will fall short.
Donato Giancola
#21. I used to write on a big old couch, but I gave that away. I was wise enough to give it to my son, so if it turns out that the couch was essential to my work, at least the decision to be rid of it is not irreversible.
Marilynne Robinson
#22. You will need to know when to be assertive and wise enough to know when to exercise patience
Julian Pencilliah
#24. Barsavi realized something that too many men in the city were slow to grasp; an idea that he reinforced years later when he took the Berangias sisters to be his primary enforcers. He was wise enough to understand that the women of Camorr could be underestimated only at great peril to one's health.
Scott Lynch
#25. The right of education of the female sex, as it is in a manner everywhere neglected, so it ought to be generally lamented. Most in this depraved later age think a woman learned and wise enough if she can distinguish her husband's bed from another's.
Hannah Woolley
#26. Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
Charles Caleb Colton
#27. It is not enough to protect the source of the light; the paths of the light must be protected as well so that either we may reach the light or the light may reach us!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#28. I had a very wise person tell me that he thinks marriage, when you're younger, you keep thinking you can fix things. That's what people do. And you can't really fix anything. It shouldn't be a massive difficult thing every day. Life's difficult enough.
Albert Brooks
#29. Political power intoxicates the best hearts. No man is wise enough, nor good enough, to be trusted with much political power.
Hans F. Sennholz
#30. We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error undetected will flourish and subvert.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
#32. It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to BE itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true.
Patrick Rothfuss
#33. I am not wise enough to know if there is ever purpose in tragedy, if there is ever virtue in resisting it. If it cannot be overcome, then grief has beaten you, and you are right to say so.
Dan Groat
#34. An uniformity of weights and measures, arranged upon mathematical principles, would be a benefit to the whole commercial world, if it were wise enough to adopt such an expedient.
Jean-Baptiste Say
#35. Do not speak harshly to a grown-up man. He is old enough to be your father.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#36. She said confidence and arrogance weren't the same, especially in a Dominant, and I'd know I had the right Dom for me when he was....when he was intimidating enough to be arousing, wise enough to keep me safe, and caring enough to help me grow, even when the right choices were hard ones.
M.Q. Barber
#37. His eyes were as green and curious as the eyes of a tomcat who is old enough to be wise but not old enough to have lost that refined sense of cruelty which passes for fun in feline circles.
Stephen King
#39. Each of us has that right, that possibility, to invent ourselves daily. If a person does not invent herself, she will be invented. So, to be bodacious enough to invent ourselves is wise.
Maya Angelou
#40. Be humble to see your mistakes, courageous to admit them, and wise enough to correct them.
Amine A. Ayad
#42. Mitch and I have known each other for such a long time, and we're both so pleased to be given this opportunity at this point in our lives to play characters that we've never really had a chance to play before. It's a great gift. Plus we're wise enough to appreciate it.
Susan Sullivan
#43. Just a single cord is enough to be tangled
Munia Khan
#44. Letterman, despite whatever idiotic (or worse?) things he may have done with women on his staff, was wise enough to realize that silence isn't permanent and peace of mind can't be bought.
Alafair Burke
#45. The prediction I can make with the highest confidence is that the most amazing discoveries will be the ones we are not today wise enough to foresee.
Carl Sagan
#46. And it is not enough in the world for a wise brain to be ridiculed, it must also be wounded & mistreated; a head that is a treasury of wisdom should not expect any crown other than one of thorns. What garland can human wisdom expect when it sees what divine wisdom received?
Juana Ines De La Cruz
#47. There's only one proper way a song should go, but you've got to be patient enough to let them come together time wise. Sometimes it's lightning in a bottle and you got the song. But oftentimes it shows up.
Ben Harper
#48. Not only has wilderness been a force in molding our character as a people, but its influence continues, and will, if we are wise enough to preserve it on this continent, be a stabilizing power as well as a spiritual reserve for the future.
Sigurd F. Olson
#49. It is harrowing for me to try to teach 20-year-old students, who earnestly want to improve their writing. The best I can think to tell them is: Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise
Barbara Kingsolver
#50. You must be true to yourself. Strong enough to be true to yourself. Brave enough to be strong enough to be true to yourself. Wise enough to be brave enough to be strong enough to shape yourself from what you actually are.
Sylvia Ashton-Warner
#51. I am twenty years old. To a world-wise adult, I am little more than a child. To any child, however, I am old enough to be distrusted, to be excluded forever from the magical community of the short and beardless.
Dean Koontz
#52. The story is told of a famous German chemist that his marriage did not take place, because he forgot the hour of his wedding and went to the laboratory instead of to the church. He was wise enough to be satisfied with a single attempt and died at a great age unmarried
Sigmund Freud
#53. Is this blasphemy, my lord?"
"I think not. Those who crafted me, be they gods or demons, crafted this mind that shapes my resistance to their schemes. Surely they were wise enough, at the wheel where I was thrown, to anticipate future resistance in the heart they were abuilding.
Tom Robbins
#54. I am not a 'wise man,' nor . . . shall I ever be. And so require not from me that I should be equal to the best, but that I should be better than the wicked. It is enough for me if every day I reduce the number of my vices, and blame my mistakes.
Seneca.
#55. More often than not, what stirs the imagination is best kept in the imagination, and Gwyn is aware of that, she is wise enough to know that the distance between thought and deed can be enormous, a gulf as large as the world itself.
Paul Auster
#56. It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
Fannie Hurst
#57. Living is one constant and perpetual instant when the arras-veil before what-is-to-be hangs docile and even glad to the lightest naked thrust if we had dared, were brave enough (not wise enough: no wisdom needed here) to make the rending gash.
William Faulkner
#58. I think humanity is not wise enough to know what genotype or somatype is going to be the most successful or the most fit - simply because we're not fully in control of our environment.
Paul Di Filippo
#59. Ask a wise man to dinner and he'll upset everyone by his gloomy silence or tiresome questions. Invite him to a dance and you'll have a camel prancing about. Haul him off to a public entertainment and his face will be enough to spoil the people's entertainment.
Desiderius Erasmus
#60. [O]ld enough to be wise yet young enough to be willing to partake in an arduous crusade.
Donald Kingsbury
#61. Never be picky and choosy about means of escaping disembowelment, or waste your time trying to find reasons for the persecution you're a victim of. Escape is good enough for the wise.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#62. Let there be wealth without tears; enough for the wise man who will ask no further.
Aeschylus
#63. Fortunately for me, I'm married to an amazing woman - Nancy Lasseter - who is wise enough not to let me buy every car I want. If I was single, I would be living in a very small apartment and renting a warehouse full of cool cars.
John Lasseter
#64. If thou seest anything in thyself which may make thee proud, look a little further and thou shalt find enough to humble thee; if thou be wise, view the peacock's feathers with his feet, and weigh thy best parts with thy imperfections.
Francis Quarles
#65. No man is wise enough to be another man's master. Each man's as good as the next
if not a damn sight better.
Edward Abbey
#66. The poet Li Qing-jao knew the pain of regretting words that have already fallen from our lips and can never be called back. But she was wise enough to remember that even though those words are gone, there are still new words waiting to be said, like the pear blossoms.
Anonymous
#67. By now all rock bands are wise enough to be suspicious of music industry scum.
Steve Albini
#68. Giving up doesn't make you a quiter, a loser or a failure.
It makes you wise enough to stop holding on to what refuses to be held.
Hence i say, letting go hurts,
but holding on to what is no longer there
hurts even more.
Nomthandazo Tsembeni
#69. And I wasn't old enough to be wise, so I loved her more, not less, because I knew she would be taken from me soon.
Naomi Novik
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